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Letters Patent No. 60,885, dated January/'1, 1867. u

'INDELIBLE PENGILS.

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To ALL 'WHOM IIT MAY coNc'EnN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE HALE, of Northampton, in the county of Hampshire, and Commonwealth. of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful improvement in Indelible Pencils for marking linen 'and other textile fabrics. v l

The nature of this invention is such that by encasing` the pencils in these holders, which may be made-of glass, metal, hard rubber, enamelled wood, or other material not affected by moisture, they' are completely protected from the action of light and moisture, which would otherwise act injuriously on the indeliblo composition; and I do declare that this, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention, sucient to enable any one to understand it, viz:

The case or holder A is made in two parts, B and C, of which one, B, forms the cover, head, or cap of the other. The body, C, which receives the pencil, is a hollow tube, closed at one end. The head or cap B serves the double purpose of closing the case, (nearly airtight,) and of forming the head of the pencil; it beingv made with a bore in the smaller end into which the pencil D (made of the indelible composition encased inwood) is either screwed or otherwise fastened, s'o that on taking o the cap or head, the pencil is withdrawn from the tube. The cap should either screw into the tube or case, or t so tightly as to retain its place when inserted.

What I claim as my invention is'4 I v The-combination by which the head of the Rencil becomes the stopper or cap of the case, and thus servos as its own protector, doing away with lthe necessity which has heretofore existed of enclosing the pencil in a glass vial, -With a cork stopper, and protecting the vial by a wood, metal, or paper holder. 'i

Dated at Northampton, aforeshid, this-4th day of October, A. D. 1866.

i WM. BAINBRIDGE HALE. Witnesses: I

HENRY ROBERTS,

ARTHUR W. CLARK. 

